xi, 497 pages 23 cm

Companion volume: Medieval Russia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-497)

TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The revolt and punishment of the Streltsy in 1968: an eyewitness account -- Reorganization of Russian by Peter I -- The problem of imperial succession: Peter's relations with his son Alexei -- Pososhkov on poverty and wealth -- Events surrounding the assumption of power by empress Anna, 1730 -- Events surround the assumption of power by empress Elizabeth, 1741 -- Lomonosov's challenge of the "normanist theory," 1749 -- Peter III's charter to the nobility, February 18, 1762 -- Catherine II's account of her accession to the throne, 1762 -- The Nakaz, or instruction, of Catherine II to the legislative commission of 1767-1768 -- The Russo-Polish treaty on the first partition of Poland, September 18, 1773 -- The Pugachev rebellion -- The treaty of Kutchuk-Kainardzhi, July 21, 1774 -- Catherine II's charter to the nobility, April 21, 1785 -- Radishchev's journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow -- Conditinos of peasants in the 18th century -- Czartoryski's account of the events surrounding the assassination of Paul, 1801 -- Alexander I's decree on free agriculturists, February 20, 1803 -- The Franco-Russian arrangements at Tilsit, July 7, 1807 -- Sperankii's proposed brief outline of state organization, 1809 -- Alexander I's proclamations during the war of 1812 -- The holy alliance, September 26, 1815 -- Polish freedoms under the constitution of 1815 -- The question of imperial succession -- The Decembrist movement -- Nicholas I's manifesto on peasant unrest, May 12, 1826 -- The eastern question, 1828-1856 -- Belinskii's letter to Gogol, July 15, 1847 -- Program of the society of Sts. Cyril and Methodius -- Herzen's letter to Michelet, September 22, 1851 -- The Franco-Russian treaty of neutrality and cooperation, March 3, 1859 -- The Russo-Chinese treaties, 1858-1860 -- The emancipation manifesto, March 3, 1861 -- Katkov's views on the Polish situation, 1863 -- Treating ceding Alaska, March 30, 1867 -- The Russo-German alliance system, 1863-1890 -- Turgenev's definition of Nihilism -- The catechism of the revolutionary, 1868 -- Demands of the Narodnaia Volia -- The Russo-Turkish treaty of San Stefano, March 3, 1878 -- Russian Pan-Slavism: Danilevskii's views -- Pobedonostsev's criticism of modern society -- Program of Plekhanov's group for the emancipation of labor, 1884 -- The Franco-Russian secret military convention, August 27, 1891 -- The Russo-Chinese secret treaty of alliance, June 3, 1896 -- Lenin's concept of the revolutionary party -- Father Gapon's petition to Nicholas II, January 22, 1905 -- Concessions of Nicholas II in the revolution of 1905 -- The fundamental laws of imperial Russia, 1906 -- Programs of Russian political parties -- Witte's account of his premiership -- The Russo-English treaty on Persia, Afghanistan and Tibet, August 31, 1907 -- Russia and Japan on the division of China, 1907-1916 -- Rasputin: the holy devil -- Durnovo's memorandum, February 1914 -- Russia's entry into world war I: Sazonov's account -- Program of the progressive Bloc, September 1915 -- Abdication of the Romanovs, March 1917

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